Short answers, pulled from the story.
Mohammed Iqbal Dar created the name Tanzania by winning a newspaper contest in the early 1960s. He formed the word by clipping the names of Tanganyika and Zanzibar and inserting his own initial i to create a new identity for the unified nation.
The mainland territory of Tanganyika and the island archipelago of Zanzibar merged on the 26th of April 1964. The new country was initially named the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar before being renamed the United Republic of Tanzania on the 29th of October 1964.
Mount Kilimanjaro stands at 5,895 metres above sea level as the highest point in Tanzania. The floor of Lake Tanganyika lies at 1,470 metres below sea level as the lowest point in the country.
The territory was officially transferred to Britain on the 10th of January 1920 following the Treaty of Versailles signed on the 28th of June 1919. The Supreme Council of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference had awarded all of German East Africa to Britain on the 7th of May 1919.
68 percent of Tanzania's 61.1 million citizens live below the poverty line of $1.25 a day. This statistic highlights the persistent challenges of hunger and poverty in the country despite economic strengths in agriculture and tourism.